TO MARIA GOLUBEVA

Written:Written after October 5, 1904Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XV.

      Sent from Geneva to Saratov.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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Personalfrom Lenin toMaria Petrovna

DearComrade,

Iwas extremely glad to learn from our mutual friends
(particularly fromZver—I don’t know whether you knew
her by the same nickname) that you are alive and have
taken up a political stand in solidarity with us. We were
acquainted and saw each other so long ago (at Samara in
1892–93) that it would be difficult for us to renew our
friendship without the help of new friends. And I should very
much like to renew it. For this purpose I am sending you,
taking advantage of the address I have, a detailed letter
about our affairs, and earnestly ask you to reply personally
and as soon as you can. It is quite impossible to work
together unless there is regular correspondence, but up to
now Saratov has been in the habit of keeping a stubborn
silence for months at a time. Please see that all this is changed
now, and begin to write us yourself as circumstantially
as possible. Without detailed letters from you personally it
will be impossible to get a clear picture either of your
personal activity in the cause or of Saratov conditions in
general. Please make yourself spend 2 or 3 hours a week
on this.

Isend you very best greetings and good wishes.